Full-length Collections
Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate (Ecco, 2023)
The Government Lake: Last Poems (Ecco, 2019)
Dome of the Hidden Pavilion (Ecco, 2015)
The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Ecco, 2012)
The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco, 2008)
Return to the City of White Donkeys (Ecco, 2004)
Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco, 2002)
Shroud of the Gnome (Ecco, 1997)
Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems (Ecco, 1994)
Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1991)
Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)
Reckoner (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
Constant Defender (Ecco, 1983)
Riven Doggeries (Ecco, 1979)
Viper Jazz (Wesleyan University Press, 1976)
Absences: New Poems (Little, Brown & Co., 1972)
Hints to Pilgrims (Halty Ferguson, 1971)
The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Little, Brown & Co., 1970)
The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967)
Chapbooks and Limited Editions
The Trust (edited by James Haug, Scram Press, 2021)
The Meteor (Rain Taxi, 2016)
The Zoo Club (Rain Taxi, 2011)
Lost River (Sarabande Books, 2003)
Police Story (Rain Taxi, 1999)
Bewitched: 26 poems (Embers Handpress, illustration by Laurie Smith, 1989)
Just Shades (Parallel Editions, 1985, illustrated by John Alcorn)
Land of Little Sticks (Metacom Press, 1981)
The Rustling of Foliage: The Memory of Caresses (The Massachusetts Review, 1979)
Apology for Eating Geoffrey Movius’ Hyacinth (Unicorn Press, 1972)
Amnesia People (Little Balkans Press, 1970)
Wrong Songs (H. Ferguson, 1970)
Deaf Girl Playing (Pym-Randall Press, 1970)
Shepherds of the Mist (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)
Row with Your Hair (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)
The Torches (Unicorn Press, 1968)
Notes of Woe (Stone Wall Press, 1968)
The Destination (Pym-Randall Press, 1967)
Prose
Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories (Verse Press, 2002)
The Route as Briefed (University of Michigan Press, 1999)
Hottentot Ossuary (Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974)
Collaborations
The Lost Epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke: The Author’s Annotations, Commentary, and Notes of Reference for A Millenium’s Teardrop by James Tate & Dara Wier (Waiting for Godot Books, 1999)
Lucky Darryl (Release Press, 1977, a novel co-written with Bill Knott)
Are You Ready, Mary Baker Eddy??? (Cloud Marauder Press, 1970, poems co-written with Bill Knott)
list of translations forthcoming